S. 5400
STRIDE Act
Sponsor: John R. Curtis · 0 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Semiconductor Technology Resilience, Integrity, and Defense Enhancement Act or the STRIDE Act
This bill requires the Department of State to coordinate with the governments of other countries to prevent the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries from acquiring critical semiconductor technologies.
Specifically, the State Department must coordinate actions with governments of countries (partner countries) that maintain significant capabilities in semiconductor technology research, design, manufacturing, materials, equipment, or equipment subsystems and components.
Among other coordination objectives, the State Department must seek to achieve (1) alignment of export control policies regarding semiconductor technology manufacturing equipment and the critical subcomponents needed to produce such equipment; and (2) expanded restrictions on semiconductor technology design tools, intellectual property transfers, equipment servicing, and technical assistance that could enable semiconductor technology development capabilities in North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran.
The State Department must regularly assess the extent to which partner countries are implementing measures consist with U.S. policy described by the bill. If the State Department determines a partner country is not sufficiently implementing security measures, then the State Department must take specified actions, such as requesting that the Department of Commerce convene a meeting of the Export Administration Review Board (EARB) to identify and execute a plan of action. Further, the State Department must provide recommendations to the EARB to apply foreign direct product rule restrictions to semiconductor technology produced in the partner country that incorporates U.S.-origin technology, software, or equipment.
Finally, the State Department must report to Congress every 90 days.
Text of the bill
In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees. The term appropriate congressional committees means—
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
(2) Countries of concern. The term countries of concern has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f) of title 10, United States Code.
(3) Entity list. The term Entity List means the list maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations.
(4) Foreign direct product rule. The term Foreign Direct Product Rule means the rule exercising United States export controls on an item produced in a foreign country for shipment or transmission to another foreign country or foreign person, if the item—
(A) is produced using technology or software that is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;
(B) is produced with the use of a plant or major component of a plant that—
(i) is located outside the United States; and
(ii) has been created using the technology or software described in subparagraph (A); or
(C) contains, is commingled with, is bundled with, is drawn from, or is produced by an item described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
(5) Semiconductor technology. The term semiconductor technology includes—
(A) integrated circuits, microprocessors, and memory devices;
(B) semiconductor manufacturing equipment and tools, including subsystems and components;
(C) semiconductor design software and intellectual property;
(D) semiconductor materials and specialty chemicals;
(E) testing, assembly, and packaging equipment; and
(F) any technology, component, or service that is essential to semiconductor design, manufacturing, or testing processes.